It has. I've heard people say this series has been boring because of the blow-out wins. The playoffs are all about adjustments, adjustments, adjustments. To see a team suffer a double digit loss and then rebound to a blow-out victory of their own is simply amazing basketball.

Miami letting the whistle inconsistency fuck with their heads. Play the fucking game. Whining DOES NOT ENABLE A CHANGE IN CALLS. GET ON DEFENSE AND DO YOUR JOBS. YOU ARE ABOUT TO BE ELIMINATED THERE IS ONE MORE QUARTER OF PLAY JUST DO YOUR FUCKING JOBS THE CALLS WILL COME.

I found r/NBA during the Bulls/Heat series and have watched every game with a game thread pulled up. You guys have made me laugh, get mad and have given me arguments and funny shit to show my friends. If this is the last game of the season, I just want to say thanks guys.

I like LeBron, but he has to stop rolling around on the floor like a soccer player. He just cost his team a bucket because he was on the ground gesturing at the ref after he didn't get a call. I understand you're frustrated LeBron, but come on now.

Wager for any willing Spurs fan! If the heat lose tonight I will write erotic fanfiction of any two heat players of your choosing. If the spurs lose, I want a romantic short story about Joey Crawford. Any takers?

Edit: PaidDNCShill already decided that Lebron and Wade will be the two heat players. So, despite many hilarious suggestions I'll have to go with his picks.

Well on my end its erotic fanfiction so no doubt sex is a part of it. Romantic can be however you see fit, considering we may have different definitions, but the theme of love towards Joey Crawford has to be present.

Chris Bosh has no business guarding Tim Duncan. He is way too light to match up with Duncan's strength, and when he has to lean in so much to hold his anchor Duncan has way too many counter moves. He makes Bosh pay every time. Andersen has been able to use his reputation to use his hands more, which allows him some recovery time to harness Timmy. That said, Duncan is crushing it, and Birdman might be the cure.

I was wrong about Birdman. He is doing Birdman things, and it is lifting the Heat up because they are mostly staying at home on the wings, and for now the offense is running through Duncan while he is on the floor. Because of that, he isn't getting caught out of position going for weakside blocks.

The rest of the Spurs offense has been relatively quiet with regards to scoring. A little too quiet. It's really amazing they are up by any margin, despite not getting huge contributions anywhere else. Except Boris Diaw, who seems to have a pulse. He has always been a good passer, but we all know he doesn't shoot. Why is anyone falling for his pump fakes? I also love Kawhi Leonard, I'm not sure you'll ever be able to run an offense through him, but he has such a diverse skill set and his energy is terrific.

Wade has been the double edged sword. He has taken several mid- to long-range jump shots early in the shot clock with no rebounders. One of them went in, but that doesn't make it a quality shot.

Heat Role Players: Mario Chalmers, thanks for showing up! I said it in another post, but that corner three is so important to the Heat offense because a) it's three points (/madden), and b) it keeps Tony Parker out of transition. When he's setting the screen for LeBron and Wade it makes Parker work more, but it also lets him leak for those Nifty Tim Duncan Outlet Passes (R). I wish I had the Zach Lowe statistics to prove that Ray Allen has been borderline sabotaging the Heat on offense by driving to the basket. I remember he got swatted last game, and had two forays this game that have not ended well. Feel free to prove me wrong. Shane Battier got his groove back a little bit, if the Heat have any hope of winning still he will need to keep it.

Notice we haven't seen Norris Cole so far. I'd be surprised if we do for anything more than a minute or two.

Does Danny Green have an offensive game off of the three point line? I haven't watched enough Spurs to be able to tell you, but it doesn't appear that he does. Everyone is aggressively pushing him off the line, I would think a pump fake and drive could open up a ton for him.

I thought LeBron had an okay half, I don't love his long-range jumpers. I know JVG thinks they're going to open up the lane, but they don't need that with 12 second on the shot clock. When he is the initiator (instead of Wade or Rio) the offense seems to run a little more stagnantly, I would like to see him involved in some more early screen and roll plays with some of the smaller guys as the screeners. Force some uncomfortable situations.

On defense, LeBron has been playing very well, I thought he did a great job when switching on to Tony Parker. He has been great as a disruptor, but he has to find a way to turn some of that defense into offense. He's not getting any easy shots, which seems like it's making it tough for him to get going.

In the second half, the Spurs have to keep riding the Duncan train for as long as they can. I like the way the Heat are playing them, living with the one on one matchups and not letting themselves get killed by the three, but at some point you have to consider how you can get poor Chris Bosh some help down there. He's just too overmatched. Trying to front a player as smart as Tim Duncan is not going to end well.

On offense I hope we can see a more aggressive Miami. Right now the Spurs are packing the paint the second Wade and LeBron even think about driving, and they're willing to live with Chalmers, Miller, Battier, and Allen firing away on semi-contested threes. That hasn't been a terrible strategy so far, so I don't know why it would change now. I would try to force some switches or at least get the Spurs moving laterally, where you might have more of a chance of finding a hole on a miscommunication.

I think the Spurs end up taking it, hopefully this can be the most competitive game of the series. Not that being the closest game of the series really means much! For the record, I'll be rooting for the Heat because I want one more game of basketball.

Tracy McGrady will hit a game winning 3 which will cause a large disturbance in the universe and open a wormhole. Inside the wormhole, he will find LeBron James' hairline, Dwyane Wade's cherry blossom lip gloss, and Chris Bosh's prom dress: The three Deathly Hallows.

Yes, yes we should. 76ers are going to lose to the Washington Wizards tonight. Ever since Jordan threw a jersey on and has scored 40+ a night, I really don't see how the 6ers' team efforts can slow down the one man show that they call Mike Attike.

I want to say this before the season is over and I don't know where else to post it:

You know, it's pretty nuts being a Miami fan in the city of Miami right now.

This entire city is so nervous. Literally, no matter where you go, everyone is freaking out over this game. Office buildings, law firms, grocery stores, bars and restaurants, whatever. The whole city needs to take a Xanax.

I can't think of any NBA team that has ever had higher expectations for them or that requires a title every year to be considered "not a complete and total failure." And whether that's fair or warranted or self-imposed or whatever, it's the case. It takes a toll on us, the fans here in the city. The atmosphere here is tangible, and it's not just the humidity. The entire city is showing Heat flags in their car windows, walking around the city with jerseys on. I know as a fact that the these playoffs are supremely emotionally draining for myself, my co-workers, and pretty much all my friends and family here. I really can't imagine what it does to the players.

The emotional roller coaster and knee-jerking is intense. We as fans are told by everyone that we're the worst, we're evil, we leave early, we're bandwagoners, we're not "real" fans, we're classless, we use a stupid soccer anthem as a chant, whatever. Quite a lot of that is true, but it doesn't make me love this team any god damn less. I have never been so emotionally invested in a sports team before. I woke up this morning and my first thought was about game 6. And while everyone likes to bash Miami fans, (especially on these boards) there are some of us that love this team so much that when we win it makes our entire lives better, and when we lose, it really does completely break your heart.

I love this fucking team and I love this city, win or lose this week. I will love this team long after LeBron decides to leave and D-wade retires. And while I will probably be pretty salty if the Spurs do prevail, there's no amount of gloating, personal attacks on our fanbase, or shit-talking that can make me not love the Miami Heat.

OH MY FUCKING GOD, WE ARE NOT GOING TO WIN IF OUR BEST PLAYERS DON'T QUIT BITCHING ABOUT NO-CALLS AND SITTING ON THE GROUND THROWING A GOD DAMN TEMPER TANTRUM. GET THE FUCK UP AND RUN BACK ON DEFENSE INSTEAD OF COSTING US A 5-4 WHICH LEADS TO MISMATCHES AND EASY BUCKETS FOR THE SPURS. /rant

My precognitive sensings were tingling this morning when I awokened from antiawake. They telling me all sorts of exciting and wonderouslyful things will happening tonights on this, the days of the sixths finalsgames.

Firstly and foremostly, both Shane Batman and Peter Parker showing up almost a full sixtyminutes lately for today's events due owing to them having to saving Gothams and Frenchlands, respectitivily. Understandability, the Hots are happily about this and the Spurts are antihappily about this because saving Gothams is much more importantly than finalsgames but saving Frenchlands is one of those things that's is like "well if you having a chances maybe savings us but it's isn't not urgently or anythings"

Daniel Red Orange Indigo Blue is coming down with a curious cases of antihands. The Miambli lawmans saying they will do not suspicious of fowl playings and ruling it an accidentally. But it is not ultrabads because the Wiley E Coyote Manubili Ginobilililili tyings massively slings to Daniel Cyan Magenta Saffron Taupe's handstumps and he is now capably of draining four pointers from a ranges of almost 500 feets (that is 500 meterings for people from Frenchlands)!

But where does Ginobililililili getting it from? Commander Popocornovitch comings up with his own Wiley E Coyote strategies for this games. Since bees no longer working he coating Tiggalo Spliggalo in glueing and having him runnings up to Hots players and giving them huggings. Soonly, they becoming a gigantically masses of basketsball talents rolling along the floors suckings up other objects like in that one imagotron gamings - you knowing - NBA 2k20013

LeBaron James is much two focusing for him to being caught by Tiggalo Damaci. He skittering away with skillfully and the Tiggalo Damaci is getting frustratrated. LeBaron James and Dwyaywne Waders cleverly coercing the Tiggalo Damaci into suckings up Tim Dunkman. With no more bigmens for the Spurts they can grand slam dunking the night aways.

With only 4 basketsballers left in the games after the Tiggalo Fiascoes, Commander Sporestera is forcing to playings Juwanna Howards. Commander Popocornovitch is forcing to playings Ronald McDonalds. They both immediatelies sittings in centercourts and excitedly talking about they are 401ks and diversity investment portfolios. The rest of both teams getting bored and going homes.

Unfortunately, the Spurts were still antiwinning prior to this and Juwanna Howard is much more pragmatically investings than Ronald McDonalds so the Hots winning 105 - 99.

Apologyizing in advancements if they're are formats mistakings I am postings this from outer space